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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 287,954, dated November 6, 1&3.

Application filed May 1, 188 8. (No model.)

.Zb all whom it may concern.-

. Be it known that I, JOHN S. MrroHELL, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hames; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,.and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in, the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanyingdrawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this inventionis to improve the construction of a hame by making certain parts removable and interchangeable,whereby said harne may be finished with greater facility and at a reduced cost, the dealer therein will not be required to carry as large a stock to provide the various styles of mountings, and whereby the neatness of finish of the hame will be improved.

The invention consists in the arrangements and combinations of parts substantially as will be hereinafter setforth, and finally embodied in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts in each of the several figures, Figure 1 is a plan of the back or inner side of a hame, showing my improvements thereon. Figs. 2 and 3 are sections of the same, taken through lines w and g, respectively. Fig. 4 is a plan of a draft-eye, cap, or covering, showing the inner side thereof. Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate a terret and loop for the hame, and Fig. 7 i1 lustrates a modification.

In carrying out my invention I form the hamec, which may be covered with leather 2), and on said hame I form the draft-eye 0, having an eye, d, to receive the clip, of which eye 6 is an extension, whereby the clip may be more readilyinserted. Upon said draft-eye is secured a removable covering, f, which may be formed of metal or other suitably substantial material, and be constructed to entirely cover the outer surface of the draft-eye, as shown in Fig. '7,- and be provided with a holding device, r, which, being inserted in the recess 6, holds the outer extremity (or that extremityfarther from the hame) in place. Said covering may terminate short of a complete covering, as in Figs. 1 and 2, in which case the holding device for the extremity is formed a which holds the heme end of the covering f into engagement with the hame, but allows a ready removal of the same.

When it is intended to cover the heme with leather, I form a marginal recess, k, to receive and hold in place the edge of said leather.

When the covering f falls short of a complete cover for the draft-eye, as in Figs. 1 and 2, said covering may bemade to overlie the extension e of the eye, in which case the outline is rounded in appearance, greatly improving the neatness of the same, as also forming a lock, preventing the disconnection of the hame and trace-clip.

On the lower portion of the haine is arranged a removable terret, l, or loop Z, said hame being prepared to receive the same by forming a perforation for the projection m and screw n, adequate strength in the hame being retained by forcing out the 1neial,which would otherwise have occupied the space of the'perforation, said outwardly-forced metal forming a raised bridge or projecting brace, s. The shank of the terret connects the latter to a peculiarly-shaped plate, 25, which is made to conform to the hame, said plate being curved, as at 0, to rest upon the curved face of thehame, and a recess, 11, being formed to receive the brace a. The projection on and screw it hold the terret and hame into rigid combination, as will be observed upon reference to Fig. 3.

The terret-plate tis or maybe also provided with a recessed margin to receive a leather covering for the hame,

The hame thus constructed allows of a ready change in the style of mounting-as, for example, a change from a gold to asilver plated mounting-enables the same hame to be employed in a single or double harness, the terarable covering f, provided with the projec:

. tion h and screw said parts being arranged a Operating ntiall as and for the purposes set forth.

3. In combination, the perforated hame, the' draft-eye having the eye d, and the covering having the holding device at one end and the projection h at the other, adapted to be secured in the perforation 9, all substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

4. In combination, the hame having the projecting brace s, and the terret having the recess 12 and projection m, and means to hold said parts into engagement.

5. The hame having the brace projecting from the edge thereof, in combination with a recessed terret or'loop, substantially as herein set forth and shown.

6. In combination with the hame, a removable or separable terret provided with the plate it, having the recess 19 therein, as set forth.

7. In combination with the hame, a draftv eye covering-plate having the recess k, to receive the leather hame-covering.

8. As an improved article of manufacture, a hame having perforations therein, and the raised or projecting brace s, the separable draft-eye covering provided with a marginal recess to receive the edge of a leather hamecovering, and having the projection h and screw 3', and the separable terret having the projection m and recess 17, all said parts being arranged and operating substantially as and for thepurposes herein set forth and shown.

9. The combination of ahame having aperforation therein, a removable terret having the curved plate 16, adapted to receive a screw, and be held thereby securely upon said hame,

and said screw passing through the perforated hame and engaging with the terret-plate, all substantially as herein set forth and shown.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I.

have hereunto set my hand this 19th day of April, 1883.

' JOHN S. MITCHELL.

Witnesses:

. CHARLES H. PELL,

F. F. CAMPBELL. 

